Behavior of NXLog when source files / directories do not exist?

#1 Appleoddity 2 years ago

I want to use an automated method of deploying NXLog to specific machines. These machines have differing combinations of software installed that I want to monitor.

I want to deploy NXLog along with a standard configuration file that has all the potential sources of log files I want to monitor. On some machines, those files/directories may not exist. How will NXLog handle that? Will it ignore it gracefully?

I am trying to avoid having custom configs for each individual server, and instead use a generic config file that covers all of our potential configurations (IIS, Apache, NGINX, BIND, etc.)

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#2 Gabor.SzidonyaDeactivated Nxlog ✓ 2 years ago

#1 Appleoddity

I want to use an automated method of deploying NXLog to specific machines. These machines have differing combinations of software installed that I want to monitor. I want to deploy NXLog along with a standard configuration file that has all the potential sources of log files I want to monitor. On some machines, those files/directories may not exist. How will NXLog handle that? Will it ignore it gracefully? I am trying to avoid having custom configs for each individual server, and instead use a generic config file that covers all of our potential configurations (IIS, Apache, NGINX, BIND, etc.)

Hi,

You can use any number of im_file modules with all the files you want to monitor through different systems. If one file is not available at a machine, the agent will write a warning to it's own log about the missing files, but won't send anything into it's output modules.

Best regards, Gábor